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ORADELL, N.J. -- He represented some of Hollywood's most familiar names -- from Samuel L. Jackson and Debra Messing to Viola Davis and Steve Buscemi -- some of whom were expected to pay final respects this week to Mark A. Schlegel of Oradell.

Others plan to attend a celebration of life being planned for the legendary talent agent in New York City.

A memorial service for Schlegel, 57, was scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at the Church of the Atonement on Highwood Avenue in Tenafly.

Over the span of his career, he also reprented Buscemi, Messing, Davis and Jackson, as well as Jeff Goldblum, David Harbour, LaChanze, Denis O'Hare, Thomas Everett Scott, Michael Stuhlbarg and Molly Ringwald.

Schlegel "would regularly go from coast to coast in search of new talent," the obituary says.

He lectured at Rutgers and the Yale School of Drama, among other institutions.

His obituary says Schlegel also sat in on acting classes, "giving constructive critiques to students and offering insight and honesty to them so that they didn't feel so powerless or clueless as to the 'business of the business'."

Schlegel and his wife of 33 years, Christine Karner Schlegel, were home a day after a family trip to Scotland when he went for a walk and never returned on Aug. 13, authorities said.

Besides his wife, Schlegel is survived by his son, Reid Andersen Schlegel, and daughter, Kirsten Margaret Schlegel, as well as his parents, Shirley and Donald Schlegel; his sister, Christine Schlegel Sullivan and her husband, Kent Sullivan.